Tuesday 16 October 2012

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Apple iPad Mini 'to start at £200'

Schoolboy, six, leaves family with £2000 iPad game app bill

Apple's iPad Mini will start at £200 and will be equipped with at least 3G connectivity, according to reports.

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Apple iPad mini event 'on October 23'

Samsung Galaxy Nexus ban overturned

iPad mini launch date remains a mystery

Average Twitter user is an an American woman with an iPhone and 208 followers

Taiwan to ask Apple maps to blur sensitive radar site

iPad Mini 'to be Wi-Fi only'

Google Nexus 7 ‘best selling Android tablet ever’

The price makes it more a rival to the Amazon Kindle

Google’s first tablet has become the best-selling in its category just three months after its launch, a retailer has announced.

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Google 'to be ordered to reverse privacy policy'

Winsor McCay's Little Nemo cartoon celebrated in Google Doodle

Muslims protest outside Google offices over anti-Islam YouTube clip

Muslims protest at Google London

Muslims protest 'age of mockery' at Google HQ

Anti-Islam film prompts Saudi call for net censorship body

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Twitter »

Microsoft Windows 8 adverts debut

Microsoft's new Surface tablets will come in a range of colours and run Windows 8 in a bid to take on the iPad

Adverts for Microsoft's forthcoming Windows 8 operating system have been published online.

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Bill Gates urges Islamic nations to ensure technology reaches the poor

Motorola wins German patent case against Microsoft

Microsoft plans midnight launch of Surface tablet

Microsoft ‘planning to make its own phone’

Microsoft co-founder says Windows 8 needs improvement

Google is now more valuable than Microsoft

US vice-presidential debate: as it played on Twitter

Joe Biden, the US vice president, told a campaign rally on Tuesday that the middle class has been buried for the past four years, just longer than President Barack Obama's time in the White House.

As Joe Biden and Paul Ryan took to the stage the political world took to Twitter. Here's how it played.

Average Twitter user is an an American woman with an iPhone and 208 followers

DPP should act quickly to preserve free speech online

Twitter founder Jack Dorsey denies being 'difficult to work with'

David Cameron on Twitter: 'Can you do anything about the rain?’

Twitter users to direct Mercedes adverts

Thousands join Facebook and Twitter to search for missing April

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Wikipedia »

YouView - a boon for broadband providers?

Joanna Lumley re-enacts a classic Fawlty Towers moment at TalkTalk's YouView launch

The new YouView TV service is being offered free by BT and TalkTalk - consumers and the ISPs will both benefit, says Matt Warman

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BlackBerry BB10 handsets leak in online video

BlackBerry maker's shares jump 20pc on results

BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha B: hands on

BlackBerry tells developers: 'we are fighting'

Wikipedia charity faces investigation over trustee 'conflict of interest'

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has said that his website will encrypt connections with Britain if plans to track internet, text and email use become law.

The charity responsible for promoting Wikipedia in Britain faces an investigation over alleged conflicts of interest and has been barred from processing some donations, after one of its trustees was paid for his involvement in a project that sought to use the online encyclopaedia for publicity.

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Wikipedia blackout after cables cut

Wikipedia charity chairman resigns after pornography row

Chairman of Wikipedia charity banned after pornography row

Julian Assange The Movie: coming soon

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HTC »

Does the internet encourage eating disorders?

More than 50 under ten-year-olds were admitted to hospital with eating disorders in the past year, as official figures reveal the problem is striking at a younger age.

With the number of hospital admissions for eating disorders growing, especially amongst young girls, Emma Barnett examines the impact of the internet and social media on body image.

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Why doesn't HM Revenue poke Facebook?

Facebook 'immoral' for paying tax bill of £238,000

Facebook's UK arm slumps to loss

DPP should act quickly to preserve free speech online

Facebook introduces 'want' button in e-commerce push

Facebook troll spared jail over British soldiers abuse

HTC 8X and 8S Windows Phones launch

HTC's Windows 8 X was described as 'beautfiul' by Microsoft's chief executive

Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer praises HTC’s new devices as "beautiful", but few new details are revealed.

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Android extends lead over Apple iPhone

Facebook 'working on phone with HTC'

Facebook 'headhunts Apple iPhone engineers'

Mobile shortage looms as Qualcomm runs out of chips

Nintendo »

Sony »

The universal language of Pokémon

The Pokémon series continues to be a phenomenon. With the newest game out this week, Chris Schilling speak to its creators to find out how they continue to communicate with a global audience.

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Skylanders Giants interview

GameCity Prize 2012 longlist announced

The ten best back to school video games

The 20 best video games of 2012 so far...

Hackers steal details of Sony mobile customers

Hacker steal details of Sony mobile customers

Sony said hackers stole details belonging to hundreds of its mobile unit clients, the latest in a string of cyberattacks to hit the embattled Japanese electronics giant.

IFA 2012: gadget world giants gather in Berlin

Sony confirms PlayStation Mobile gaming service

Sony: developers not supporting PS Vita

The world's most expensive jelly

Sony buys Gaikai for $380 million

Google launches TV in Britain

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Amazon customers to receive e-book refunds

Amazon's new Kindle Paperwhite is the company's first backlit Kindle

Amazon customers are to receive refunds on certain e-books following a settlement between book publishers and US authorities over alleged price fixing.

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Google Nexus 7 ‘best selling Android tablet ever’

Amazon: don't blame us for the revolution on the high street

Amazon Kindle Paperwhite launched in the UK

iPad's grip on tablet market weakens

Dell to keep PC production despite HP's exit

Dell, headed by Michael Dell, is ending production at it plant in Limmerick, Ireland.

HP's decision to scrap its hardware business is an opportunity for the company, says Dell founder and chief executive Michael Dell

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Dell scraps the Streak 5 - but not in Britain

Dell drops Ubuntu PCs

Apple, Hewlett-Packard and Dell probe Foxconn suicides

Dell Streak ‘mini iPad’ tablet launches on O2

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Nokia »

MySpace gets facelift under Justin Timberlake

Pioneering social network, MySpace, is to undergo a dramatic facelift as pop star Justin Timberlake and the rest of its backers attempt to capitalise on their investment.

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